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Bing’s Schrodinger-style China Ban, headphones from Sonos, flying cars from Boeing, layoffs for project Titan, and the serious ongoing layoffs in the digital media world.

Sponsors:

• Lightstream.com/ride
• Metalab.co
• DatadogHQ.com/ridehome

Stories from: @pkafka, @markgurman 

Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

Links:

• China Appears to Block Microsoft’s Bing as Censorship Intensifies (NYTimes)
• Sonos Plans Headphones in Move Outside the Home (Bloomberg)
• Boeing’s ‘flying car’ lifts off in race to revolutionize urban transport (VentureBeat)
• The U.S. Government Shutdown Has Delivered A Surprise Blow To Bitcoin (Forbes)
• Apple just dismissed more than 200 employees from Project Titan, its autonomous vehicle group (CNBC)
• Verizon Media Group is laying off 7% of its staff (CNBC)
• BuzzFeed is laying off more than 200 people, its second round of cuts in 14 months (Recode)